I Give It A Year (2013)

I Give It A Year Synopsis

Since they met at a party, ambitious high-flyer Nat (Rose Byrne) and struggling novelist Josh (Rafe Spall) have been deliriously happy despite their differences. Josh is a thinker, Nat’s a doer, but the spark between them is undeniable.

Their wedding is a dream come true, but no one — family, friends and even the minister who marries them — is convinced that they will last. Josh’s ex-girlfriend, Chloe (Anna Faris), and Nat’s handsome American client Guy (Simon Baker) could offer attractive alternatives.

I Give It A Year is written and directed by Dan Mazer (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Bruno), and is produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner (Love Actually, Atonement), along with Kris Thykier (Stardust).

With their first anniversary approaching, neither wants to be the first to give up, but will they make it?

One of the trickier aspects of the wedding celebration is often the speeches dolled out during the reception. When they go well, everyone's hearts swell with love and joy for the happy couple, tears flow like the free champagne, and all is right with the world! But when they go wrong…

It’s always uncomfortable to watch married people fight. In a perfect world they would be the happiest among us, as they’ve found someone to love and cherish for as long as they both shall live, But then reality kicks in with the fact that just because people share a pair of rings doesn’t make them dreamily happy.

Fornication. Seeing as that's the first word mentioned in the trailer for I Give It A Year, it seemed fitting that we kick off this article in similar fashion. Of course, it comes out a lot funner when spoken by Stephen Merchant as part of a wedding speech. The speech only gets more awkward from there, but Merchant shines in awkward humor. And he isn't the only one.

When we reported the news last week that Simon Baker would be playing a role in the upcoming comedy I Give It A Year, there was a key piece of information missing. It was unclear in the report if it would be Baker or the previously cast Rafe Spall who would play the husband in the recently-married couple who would have to deal with the ups and downs that come in the first year of marriage.

They always say that the first year of marriage is the hardest. While things might have been going perfectly when you were a couple or even when you were engaged, being married is a whole new level of commitment, as everything becomes about "we" and looking towards the future. It's a level of pressure that not everybody is able to stand up to. That's the conflict at the heart of the new comedy I Give It A Year, which has just brought on a new actor to star.